George Logan

George Logan (9 September 1753-9 April 1821) was a US Senator from Pennsylvania from 13 July 1801 to 4 March 1807, succeeding Peter Muhlenberg and preceding Andrew Gregg. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
George Logan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1753, and he was schooled in Scotland before returning to the United States in 1780. Despite his family's Tory background, Logan was elected to the state legislature in 1785, and he became a Democratic-Republican during the 1790s. In 1798, he went to Paris to negotiate an end to the Quasi-War between the USA and France, leading to the Federalist Party passing the Logan Act, which criminalized individual citizens to interfere in disputes between the USA and foreign countries. In 1801, Logan was appointed to fill the vacant US Senate seat of Peter Muhlenberg, serving until 1807. He died in 1821.